Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition April 12, 2014 Water woes now plague the fledgling existence of the expensive, tax-funded jewel of the Prairies. This, only a handful of days after the provincial government announced a $3-million upgrade to Winnipeg’s Investors Group Field, and a $4-million local investment to enhance a one-year-old building. Members of the media spent the better part of this past week attempting to build a ...
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Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition April 5, 2014 Although present in my column’s tagline, I have not often used this column to set records straight as it pertains to the operations of Renaissance Brandon. I believe the column at its basest nature is more about finding what is good in this community, and should there be a need to question a decision, striving to seek solutions to a ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition March 29, 2014 You need not look too far to see the effects of poverty in this country. All around us people are challenged by poverty, and many in our community struggle to make ends meet. Even more alarming is the number of underemployed or lower-income families, those who are constantly pressed in making the decisions of how best to feed a hungry ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition March 20, 2014 As the last bits of winter linger on, many in Westman are itching to pick up the clubs and head out for a round or two of golf as soon as the ice and snow melts away. Of the plethora of golfing opportunities in and around Westman, the Wheat City Golf Course will undoubtedly be on the list for some ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition March 15, 2014 Progressive Conservative Leader Brian Pallister has officially gone on the record to promise that the PC party would not cut a single front-line service job if elected in 2016. Rather, the focus would be on what he and his party call a “chill” in hiring, cuts to government advertising budgets and some reclassifications through attrition and retirements — a form ...
Republished from the Brandon Sun print edition March 8, 2014 One has to feel for member of Parliament Larry Maguire. The longtime politician and community builder has been handed nothing less than a handful of headaches from a Conservative party bent on snatching defeat from the jaws of victory in 2015. The most recent misstep comes in the form of a decree tumbling down from the mound to the masses ...
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